1826 in Canada

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Events from the year 1826 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George IV^[1]

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: George Ramsay
• Governor of New Brunswick: Howard Douglas
• Governor of Nova Scotia: James Kempt
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith
• Governor of Upper Canada: Peregrine Maitland

Events

• June 8 – A mob of the ruling party, the Family Compact, destroy the Colonial Advocate's press at York. Wilton, Carol. ^[2] William Lyon Mackenzie, publisher, prosecutes and is awarded £625 in damages.
• September 21 – Construction of the Rideau Canal begins.

Births

• March 10 – Louis-Ovide Brunet, priest and botanist (died 1876)
• March 17 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1889)
• June 11 – James Colledge Pope, politician and 5th Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1885)
• June 21 – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada (died 1902)
• June 23 – Louis Babel, priest (d. 1912)
• June 29 – Robert Christie, Ontario businessman and politician (died 1914)
• July 21 – Hugh Richardson, jurist (died 1913)
• August 25 –
  Father of Confederation (died 1906
  )
• September 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion, journalist and politician (died 1866)

Deaths

• November 18 – James Monk, chief justice

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